— It is a typical scenario that many organisations have their business processes specified independently of their business contracts. This is because of the lack of guidelines a...
Abstract. This paper explores the use of temporal logics in the context of communication protocols for multiagent systems. We concentrate on frameworks where protocols are used to ...
Conventional virtual coupling is designed mainly for stabilizing the virtual environment (VE) and it thus may have poor performances. This paper proposes a novel adaptive virtual c...
Abstract. Description Logics (DLs) are a family of logic based knowledge representation formalisms. Although they have a range of applications (e.g., configuration and information...
Among non-monotonic systems of reasoning, non-monotonic modal logics, and autoepistemic logic in particular, have had considerable success. The presence of explicit modal operator...